This report on KurzweilAI.net almost literally BLOWS MY MIND:
The average American consumes 34 gigabytes of content and 100,000 words of informationin a single day (excluding work information) — 11.8 hours of information — according to areport by the University of California, San Diego. U.S. information consumption in 2008 totaled 3.6 zettabytes (10^21 bytes) and 10,845 trillion words. Video sources dominate bytes of information, with 1.3 zettabytes from television and approximately 2 zettabytes of computer games. Hours of information consumption grew at 2.6 percent per year from 1980 to 2008, due to a combination of population growth and increasing hours per capita, from 7.4 to 11.8. More surprising is that information consumption in bytes increased at only 5.4 percent per year. Yet the capacity to process data has been driven by Moore’s Law, rising at least 30 percent per year.
Unless someone implants a chip in my brain, I don’t think I can take much more (or Moore).
About Michael Hamill Remaley
Michael Hamill Remaley is the President of Hamill Remaley Communications. Previously, he was Director of Communications at the Russell Sage Foundation and Prior to that was Vice President and Director of Communications at Public Agenda. He has held a variety of positions at organizations such as The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, TCC Group and the Center for Social Policy and Community Development.